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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday July 08 2020, @04:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the everything-is-fine-here dept.

USA Today reports Trump has Officially Begun to Withdraw the US From the World Health Organization as Pandemic Spikes:

The Trump administration has officially begun to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization, even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to grip the globe and infections spike in many states across the U.S.

Congress received formal notification of the decision on Tuesday, more than a month after President Donald Trump announced his intention to end the U.S. relationship with the WHO and blasted the multilateral institution as a tool of China. The White House said the withdrawal would take effect on July 6, 2021.

[...] The formal withdrawal comes as the United States nears 3 million reported coronavirus cases and more than 130,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data. Globally, there have been 11.6 million cases and almost 540,000 deaths.

Additional Coverage:
Trump administration moves to formally withdraw US from WHO
Trump administration begins formal withdrawal from World Health Organization
Trump Begins Process Of U.S. Withdrawal From World Health Organization

Previously:
(2020-05-20) Trump Threatens to Take US Out of WHO Entirely and Stop All US Funding
(2020-04-15) Trump to Halt Funding to WHO


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @07:42PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @07:42PM (#1018781)

    Just to be clear, I think Trump is a shitty president. I am simply pointing out actual TDS. All the Trump haters out there endlessly prattle on about his stream of racist tweets. No one can point to a racist tweet. Not one. If Trump makes racist tweets, link to one.

  • (Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday July 09 2020, @07:51PM (4 children)

    by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 09 2020, @07:51PM (#1018785)
    Okay. So why not accept my answer, then? There are plenty of news sources there so you can pick your favorite flavor, and not a single one of them questioned the existence of the tweet. I honestly thought I was doing you a favor by providing you a way to check my work if you didn't like my source.
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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @08:00PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @08:00PM (#1018792)

      Do you think you provided an answer?

      • (Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday July 09 2020, @08:13PM (2 children)

        by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 09 2020, @08:13PM (#1018800)
        Are you being sincere in investigating the existence of TDS?
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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2020, @05:15AM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2020, @05:15AM (#1018965)

          There are plenty of news sources there so you can pick your favorite flavor, and not a single one of them questioned the existence of the tweet.

          I don't really have much trust in the MSM these days. I've followed the trail through those sorts of articles before, and still never found a link to any actual Trump tweets. It's a citation circle where everyone agrees there are racist tweets because everyone says he is a racist tweeter.

          I was sincere in wanting to read the alleged stream of racist tweets. Deathmonkey [soylentnews.org] finally provided a link to a tweet triplet where he tells three non-white senators to go back to their own countries if they don't like what he is doing. A single example is hardly a stream, but it looks like that's it for racist tweets.

          The actual text from Trump:

          So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how. it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!

          Not really that extreme for political rhetoric, and while racist it is targeted at three political opponents not at a race in general.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2020, @10:03AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2020, @10:03AM (#1019006)

            How is that racist? He didn't say they were less capable because they were of foreign origin.